January 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! Ben talks: Cowabunga Dude, Phone a Friend, Berry Good, & more!
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Boom Shaka Laca in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour
with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. He will
rejoin me, he's producing this podcast, but he will rejoin
me on Saturday. We'll have Danny with us all weekend,
but not today. He's on assignment. He's in Vegas for
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a fight. I have no idea who's fighting. I have
no idea who's fighting. But Danny is in Vegas. So
you've got me today on the fifth Hour and only
me and we thank you for supporting the podcast. I
just got some podcast numbers from one of the big
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company very happy making lots and lots of money off
the podcast. Myself and Danny, Eh, you know, not that much,
but we're hanging out. It's a labor of love. It's
a labor of love. So today is the last podcast
we are doing in the month of January twenty twenty five.
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We will not be doing another podcast in the month
of January. Is our final show in January of twenty
twenty five, and we celebrate National Fun at Work Day today. Yeah,
today being Friday, and what a wonderful holiday. You gotta
have fun. Well, most people would say, if you want
to boost team around, just let people off from work,
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and that would be a great way. A modern way
to make sure that people have a good day at
work is to not actually work. Now, I do have
a random fun factoid which is not the word of
the day. I'm gonna get to the word of the
day in a minute, but the random fun factoid is
that the word office. I got to go into the office.
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I have a studio in the Malor Mansion, which sometimes
I say is the studio. Sometimes I say it's the
remote radio station. But sometimes I'll say it's the office
because I got to do stuff in there that's like
adult stuff, you know, I got to go adulting. But
the word office goes all the way back to thirteen
ninety five. That is the first time the word office appeared.
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So think of all the different generations of our brothers
and sisters that have come before us that had to
deal with the word office. Now. Jeffrey Chaucer an English poet,
and he didn't even know it. The guy was an
author philosopher back in the thirteen hundreds. He first used
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the word office as a place to describe a place
where business transactions take place. And that was in the
Canterbury Tales in thirteen ninety five. But you got to
wait all the way up until the seventeen hundreds. The
first actual office building was built in the seventeen hundreds,
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the Old Admiralty, a three story building complex with offices
and board They had a boardroom, they had apartments and
all that for the lords of the Admiralty. I think
I'm mispronouncing that, but anyway, you get the point. You
get the point. So the couple of random fun facts,
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and there's some other thing. It's Nolan Ryan's birthday today,
Happy birthday, Nolan Ryan. The record that will last and last,
They'll have to be a unicorn that comes along to
pass Nolan Ryan by who is the greatest strike up
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got pitched twenty seven years, twenty seven years. Win the
Hall of Fame nineteen ninety nine. I believe he was
in the Hall of Fame. So he's been in the
Hall of Fame. But he's worked as an executive in
baseball and all that for years. I don't think he's
working anywhere now. Was he seventy seventy eight? I believe
something like that. I think he's seventy eight. But Nolan Ryan,
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Happy birthday him. And let's get to the meat of
the matter. On today's pod, We've got cow Abunga, dude
phone a friend, and also very good, very good. Plus
that we have time, we'll get to the idiom of
the week, the idiom of the week first, though, this
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being Friday morning, hopefully had a chance to hear the
overnight show, which we did many hours ago, and in
the overnight show we ended with some gusta No, we
had some solid moments. The fact that weed Man Hippie
is in a hospital in Miami because of some kind
of viral infection that he has because his mouth is
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all messed up and it spread to his eyes, so
he's all messed up, all jacked up, and he's still
called up from the hospital to take part in lame
jokes of the week while there were other people in
his hospital room. You know, you're weed man, hippie. You
don't get your own room at the hospital. I don't
get my own room at the hospital. I don't know
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anybody get their own room. You gotta be like a
big time rock star to get your own room at
the hospital. So he's in the hospital room with someone
else from multiple people, and he's laughing at the jokes
while he's getting medicated and all. It was pretty amusing.
But the Cowabunga, dude, Hey, you heard it. You know
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exactly what I'm talking about. So we had William from
central Florida, kind of in between Orlando and Tampa, and
he was matched up against Don in Bizmarck. So that
was the matchup in Sports Jeopardy, The Great Sports Jeopardy
and Florida versus Bismarck, North Dakota. That the match up
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basic sports Trivia Sports Jeopardy. So simple and yet so hard,
so so hard. If you heard it again, you know
exactly what I am talking about. But maybe not, maybe not.
So the question that will be remembered. I will do
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the Bennies in a couple of months, and we'll have
to make sure that this ends up somewhere in there.
I would be shocked if it doesn't. So this the
latest episode of sports talk radio Callers Say the Darnedest
Things during game shows. It was a six hundred dollars
question in Sports Jeopardy, and if you didn't hear it,
I'll give you the question. Tim Duncan though he had
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hit or thought rather thought he had hit a game
winning buzzer beater to win the game, but with zero
point four seconds put back on the clock, that allowed
future NBA head coach, This, this future NBA head coach
to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. So
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that was the question, rather basic right, rather basic question.
And my man, Don Don I love you. Don't be upset.
Don You made my day. Your answer made my day.
So again I said, allowed this future NBA head coach
to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. And
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my guy Don in beautiful Bismarck said Bart Scott. Bart
Scott was the correct answer. That's right, that's right. The
former Jets linebacker, who I guess does radio stuff or
something I don't know. Everyone's got a media job somewhere.
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Bart Scott was the answer. I'll never forget when the
NFL player hit the zo point four second shot to
win an NBA game, it was It was amazing. So
I made my day and almost as much as hearing
weed Man from the hospital. And we had our friend
Dick from Dayton to call in and inform us that
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one of his dear friends has been put in a
convalescent home. What a terrible way to go out right,
and some people are forced to do that. Sucks, But
that's the story. With the Dixter giving us the inside skinny.
Now we've got business to take care of. There are
no NFL games, no NFL games this weekend in terms
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of the Super Bowl obviously is not played until following Sunday,
February ninth. This is our last day of January. It
is an emotional roller coaster on Benny Versus the Penny.
Now I have been accused in the past of dabbling
in hyperbole, let me tell you something. This is the
favorite show that we've done. I love this show of
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all the shows we've done this season. In season two
of Benny Versus the Penny, this is my favorite. It
is I love it and had a grand old time
happy days of heere. We had no games to break down,
no real football games because no real football games played,
so we were just hucking it up and having a
great time. And you can watch the product, the finished
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product of Bennie Versus the Penny. It's already been broadcast
in some places. Maybe it's being broadcast right now where
you are, I know on our hub on inb EC
Sports Boston at six pm tonight, you can watch. Right
after Felger and Maz on NBC Sports Boston, you can
watch Bennie Versus the Penny, and then the Celtics are
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playing a little bit after that, and then we're on
after the Celtic postgame show at midnight. We're scheduled to
be on and there'll be a bunch of other showings
on Saturday, and I think a few on Sunday in
the morning. Check out Benny Birthus Penny. And there is
a moment I tease this on the Overnight show last night,
but there is a moment in the show which is
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dedicated to one of you guys, one of the callers
to the show, and it was one of the most
ridiculous things that's happened on the TV show, but it
was because of the radio show. And I don't want
to give any more away. I want you to watch
it or listen to it if you're blind and pretend
like you're watching and you'll hear all about that. It
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was interesting, very velly thing, shall we say so. Then
after we got done doing the TV show, which we
gain no games to handicap, but we did a TV
show about handicapping games. So after that we started meandering
around the Universal Studios Hollywood back lot. Now we have
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explored this year almost all of the back lot. We
thought we were doing a little opposition research, and we
realized that there were several iconic sets that we have
not found, even though we have gone back and forth.
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What we thought was all of the back lot at
Universal Studios, Hollywood, but we could not find a couple
of iconic sets and it was driving us insane. And
we've only got a few weeks left in the TV show,
and so we wanted to see everything we could possibly see.
Check that box right. Who knows if we'll be back.
I hope we're back. I'm optimistic the show will be
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picked up again. But even if the show is picked
up again, maybe we won't do the show from Universal Studios.
Maybe we'll do the show somewhere else. You never know.
So we we were wandering around, and of course I
don't like talking to anybody, you know, I'm an introvert.
I do talk radio, but when I'm not doing the show,
I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna keep to myself
and we'll find it and we'll just back we'll backtrack.
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I'm telling Looney, we're walking around. It's quite cold, California cold,
and we're walking around. He's got a big jacking on.
I've got my uh my work cloath. So we're wandering
around and we can't find it, and we're really getting
kind of upset because we we figured it's got to
be here, somewhere we must be missing, right, We're looking
through the back of buildings that are fake buildings, and
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we're like, all right, we're gonna find it. And we're
sniffing around like, you know, we're like a basset hound,
you know, a couple of basket hounds trying to find
it so we can in find it. And then finally
Tom Looney not not an introvert. An extrovert, Thom says,
I whatever, let me just ask this guy. So there
was a group of dudes that work on the crew.
They make the the sets or whatever, right they do
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the They fu's around with the sets, and so they're
sitting in a golf cart. It's kind of killing time.
You could tell they're killing time. They don't have much
to do at that point, and so Looney goes over
and starts smoothing them and he's like, I'm trying to
find this in particular set. We don't know where is
it up? Is it up the hill? And one of
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these guys we got very lucky talk about being a
lucky devil. So one of these guys is like, hey, yeah,
I know exactly where that is. You want to ride?
Do we want to ride? Right? Do we look? This
is called phone a friend you know on who wants
to be in there. Looney shows the phone of friend
option and the phone of friend option. We started chatting
this guy up and he was, you know, wanted to
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watch the TV show. He didn't know about the TV show.
And he drove us up this massive hill. There were
all these Universal Studios tram cars that were all over
the place park because the amusement park wasn't open, And
so we go up this hill, megawright turn, and boom,
We're on one of the sets we were looking for.
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And then we keep going and we go through this
parking lot where they have all these iconic cars. And
when I say iconic cars, I am talking some of
the most famous cars that you have ever seen in
movies and TV shows and they're all side by side.
It was visually overwhelming. It was like my childhood was
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in front of me under and I was like, WHOA,
this is crazy. I was trying to process everything and
all that. We're going to try to get back there
and do some videos in the next couple of weeks,
so you guys can see what I'm talking about. It
was wild, right. We found the set that has all
the houses that have been used in many, many movies
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over the years, and I don't want to give any
of that away because we might be doing a video
from there in the coming weeks. And so the whole
thing was just great. It was awesome. We didn't have
to walk this guy he gave us the VIP throw
and I've always wondered, I've said this, I think on
this podcast. I don't know the etiquette on the golf
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carts in Hollywood. Everyone's got a golf cart. Me and Looney,
don't we walk like a couple of puttzes. We're wandering
around and we see golf carts everywhere, Like, well, can
anyone just go use a golf cart? Do you have
to have? Like is everyone have their own golf cart?
There's no way everyone could have their own golf cart
because there's not enough golf carts for the people. And
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it seems like people are just coming and going. And
then there's like a number system and maybe there's a
colored system meaning that the certain colors are for certain
parts of Universal Studios and all that, and we don't know.
So we were like, well, stay away, We'll just stay away.
But we did get a ride. It was very cool.
So now we know everywhere we need to go. We
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know everything that we did not get to that we
can still get to. So consider it done. We'll get there.
In the company. Now, we did film a video today.
We went back to the New York Skyline downtown Manhattan
and they were filming. Oh you'll see, there were a
bunch of really cool cars there too. And they were
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filming some I think it was a commercial, but it
might have been a might have been more than that.
We're not really even sure they were. They were hard
at work putting the the logos on the glass because
every time they filmed something new, the people that come
in that make the sets have to change everything out
and they're there when we're there. And did you see
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any actual shooting of the show. But they were putting
all the sets together, which was a monumental, monumental amount
of work, and it was it was pretty cool. So
we were doing that, wandering around and whatnot. Now, I
wanted to mention this since Loraina started on the show
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back in the day, Since Lorena started on the show,
she has become very popular with some of you boys.
All Right, she gets a lot more mail than me.
I have been usurped. I don't get as much. I
get a little I get a little bit. I get
my prison mail. A couple of you guys take care
of me, and I appreciate that. But Lorena, I don't
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know what it is about her. Apparently she's got some
things I don't have, and she's the beneficiary of a
lot of food, a lot of candy, a lot of
stuffed animals and random things. And I don't even know.
I mean, there's boxes coming in and it's got my
name on it. It is Ben Malors show. But for Lorraine, now,
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the cool thing is she often will get a lot
of food and she'll share with the class. So this
past week, a listener and I'm not sure who I
would give you credit if I I knew, she didn't.
I don't think she told me. Maybe she did not forgot.
So anyway, the listener said, this giant box of Valentine's
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Day candy, chocolates and different snacks for Valentine's Day January,
still January this week. I know we're going to February
this weekend. So anyway, this's giant box. And they had
all kinds of stuff, and Lorena was showing me the
many delicious treats that she was given, and I was like,
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that's kind of cool, that's neat. Why not? And one
of the items I had not had it was strawberry
frosted pretzels. That's the way I would discover me. You know,
I have chocolate pretzels, but I've never had strawberry pretzels.
I have had chocolate covered pretzels. Ya, you've never had any? Yeah, no,
I never had. You want some? You want some? So
she gave them a little doggie bag. It was actually
a ziplock bag. But she gave me a bag with some.
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And I didn't eat it, of course, because I'm fasting,
so I waited until yesterday. Last night, I broke my
fast and and I down the the strawberry very good,
very good, strawberry frosted pretzels. Now it's a good item.
I don't know that I would go out of my
way to buy the item, like I thought it was
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a solid item. I don't know that it was the
greatest thing that I've ever had, But I was breaking
a fast and all that. So stuff always takes it
tastes better when you're breaking a fast, and so I
enjoyed it. I thought I thought it was. It was
an enjoyable snack. So thank you to whoever sent the
strawberry color covered covered pretzels. It is appreciative. Let's get
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to some foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it. Every
single week we go bonkers, well almost every week. Last
week we didn't really go bonkers, but we'll have a bigger,
expanded dance remix of foody fun. These are actual food
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stories because we all got to eat. We all got
to eat. Will start out with Subway and they have
that foot long cookie which is pretty popular, so they say,
you know what, why don't we crank that up a
couple of notches and Subway is partnering with the people
at Oreo. That's right, introduce the all new Oreo foot
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long Cookie. Now this is not everywhere, It's at participating locations.
They claim that this cookie will change your life in
amazing ways. It served warm and you're supposed to share
it unless you're a hawser. As my grandfather would say,
then you'll eat the whole thing. But the Oreo foot
Long Cookie features a rich chocolate cookie dough and Oreo
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cookie pieces top with sweet vanilla cream and even more
Oreo cookie pieces on top. Now I'm looking at the
photo of it. It is not esthetically pleasing. It doesn't
look like an Oreo. It looks like a chocolate cookie
with white frosting on top and then oriole pieces on it.
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So anyway, the suggested retail price five dollars, although if
you live in California you're paying more than five dollars
for that, according to the interweb, So good luck on that.
That sounds solid. I don't need to sew it a lot.
Usually when we travel, we're in a hurry, gotta get
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some food so we'll get the subway going. And yeah,
I don't know that. I think I had one foot
long chocolate chip cookie that I split with some other
people and I thought it was pretty good. Popeyes, Popeye
the Chicken Man. Popeyes has launched a limited time ten
dollars deal. You get twelve wings or tenders for ten bucks. Boy, guy,
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this inflation is no joke. For twelve wings or tenders.
Back in my day, you ten bucks, you would get
like fifty tenders or at least twenty five. Now you
get twelve, and you better be happy. And that limited
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time and as always, as always, you know the drill.
Right then, let's just walk in. This is online exclusive.
You can't just show up and say here's my money. No, no, no,
They got to track you and then they'll give you
the deal. Otherwise, forget about it. El Poio Loco, the
Crazy Chicken. There's a Crazy Chicken location, El Poil Loco,
right across the street from the Fox Sports Radio World
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headquarters and in that particular location, El Poiloko, we have
seen Magic conson, we have seen Oscar dev A Hoyle.
Over the years, a lot of the rich people that
live up in the hills in bel Air will come
down where the commoners are to get their chicken at
that old Poiloco. Poiloco launched a new mango ho a
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narrow chicken nationwide nation wide. Oh yes, they tried this
last year. We talked about it on this podcast, and
it is nationwide. Eh eh, I mean I'm okay. I
don't really need that citrus marinated. Eh. I think it
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sounds better than it is, Like how a narrow that's
a fun word to say. It's a fun word to say.
El Poiloco celebrating fifty years, their fiftieth anniversary. They're not everywhere, No, no, no,
they're not everywhere, but there are a lot of places
out west. I don't see a poll local back east.
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I don't think they have many locations, if any back East. Well,
Valentine's Day is coming up, so fast food restaurants are
trying to cash in fast food pizza joint, pizza hut.
They have decided, you know what, the American people need,
we need to bring back are popular heart shaped pizza. Tadda, Yeah,
there's nothing that says romance to your significant other then
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bringing them a piping hot pepperoni pizza that is shaped
like a heart. And you can do that. You can
change your life in amazing ways. What a romantic you
will be February eleventh through February seventeenth, and they say
it's perfect for the Valentine's Day occasion. The heart shaped
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pizza will be available in restaurant or throughout their online
apps and all that crap. And the suggested starting retail
price prices may vary eleven ninety nine. Good luck finding
that for eleven ninety nine. Now I do not have
the Pizza Hut menu in front of me. I am curious.
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Is that the same price as a regular shaped pizza?
Could they really be charged more because they're shaping the
dough like a heart? Is that really worth charging more money?
I mean, I probably is, I guess. I mean you
really want the pizza like that, but it's your heart
shaped pepperoni pizza. Wait to go? Now this one right
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in my wheelhouse. Windy's people will break. Windy's have unveiled
a new thin Mint Frosty. Tada. Yes, Wendy's is partnering
up Yep, you guessed it, the Girl Scouts of America
and they are launching a new Thin Mint Frosty. This
starts later this month, February twenty first, so actually we're
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still in January, so we have to wait, but February
twenty first, and they will combine the two classic fan
favorite treats, the Frosty and the thin Mint a medley
in your mouth. Wendy's also offering a one dollar Crispy
Chicken sandwich, but only this weekend through February third, with
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any purchase in the app. So they're gonna get you
to buy something in the app and then they'll they'll
throw a bone in your way and get you that
one dollar Crispy Chicken sandwich. If you're a fan of Starbucks,
I better let my wife know. Starbucks planning to cut
thirty percent of its menu thirty percent of its menu
by the end of well not the end, but by
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late twenty twenty five, and they think this is the
way to get customers back. Less is more, Less is more.
Starbucks sales went down four percent in the US and
worldwide in the latest quarter that didn't make Wall Street
very happy. That did not and Starbucks paying a ridonculous amount.
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There's a record amount to their new CEO who they
lured away from Chipotle. Is there a free agency in
the ceo world or where there is in baseball? Yeah.
The guy that's in the Starbucks CEO who took over
just a few days ago, earned a five million dollar
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bonus after one month on the job, and he's gonna
collect another five million in March. So it's good to
know that it is not only the world of professional
sports that is frivolous with money, but also big business
in America. Now we know this, but Mike, God, do
you really need that? I mean, I know Starbucks is massive,
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I get that. But so his whole plan is to
go back to the basics. Ten million bucks. This guy's
gonna make between January and March a signing bonus of
ten million dollars ten million to decide that we're going
to get rid of a bunch of products, We're gonna
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streamline everything, and yeah, okay, good luck, good luck on that.
I'm going to bring back the sharpies and God only
knows what but there's the news about Starbucks. What else
do we have? Well, this is actually kind of funny.
So Denny's is running a promotion for two dollars four
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dollars six dollars eight dollars value menu items, and there
are multiple reports that have filtered into the foody world
that Denny's, well, they do have two dollars four dollars
six dollars eight dollars items. They have only one item
priced at that price point on their menu. So they're
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promoting you, Oh, come on in, get a couple of
two dollar items, a couple of four dollars six dollars
eight doll No, no, they only have one each. And
it gets even better. But wait, there's more in California.
And I think this is also true in New York.
It's not even two four six eight. It's who do
we appreciate? Inflation? Inflation is who we appreciate, because it's
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even higher than that, my gut. All right, we'll get out.
We have the Idiom of the week, the Ideum of
the week, the inneral all the Week card. Here's the
Adium of the week. More bang for your buck, more
bang for your buck. That is military slang. It goes back.
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More bang for your buck to World War Two obviously
means getting solid value. You think Starbucks is getting solid
value for the ten million dollars signing bonus they gave
their new CEO, whose idea was to just get rid
of a bunch of menu items. Yeah, okay, anyway, bang
for your buck it means better return on investment. And
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it was military slang. A lot of the phrases that
we have are from the military. This military slang during
World War Two and it was use to describe the
effectiveness of those bombs in relation to how much they cost.
The phrase bigger bang for the buck was used by
US President Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Charles
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Irwin Wilson, in nineteen fifty four. He used it to
describe the new policy NUK policy rather and it was
about nuclear weapons. Rather than have a large army, they
would streamline the army kind of like Starbucks is doing
their menu, and they would keep the Soviet Union in
check because they would get more bang for their back,
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a bigger bang for their back with nukes. I have
no idea whether or not they realized at that time
that those same nukes they had back in those days
are these same nukes that we have today because there's
no way to get rid of them. They're here forever,
and all it takes is one bad day and then
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game over. We're all cooked. All right, we'll get out
on that. I know that's a weird, weird flex, but okay, anyway,
thank you. Danny G will join me on the Saturday
and Sunday podcast. Don't forget Benny Versus. The Penny is
back and better than ever. Check it out or week
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before the Super Bowl show. Week before the Super Bowl Show,
you gotta watch it on NBC Sports Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
a bunch of other cable channelsill being on LA tomorrow
on the Lakers station. So if you're here in La
La Land, you can check that out and we will
catch you next time. Have a wonderful, onderful rest of
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your day. Later, skater Austa Pasta Did I do that
right now? All right? Thank you? Got a murder.
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Boom Shaka Laca in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour
with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. He will
rejoin me, he's producing this podcast, but he will rejoin
me on Saturday. We'll have Danny with us all weekend,
but not today. He's on assignment. He's in Vegas for
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a fight. I have no idea who's fighting. I have
no idea who's fighting. But Danny is in Vegas. So
you've got me today on the fifth Hour and only
me and we thank you for supporting the podcast. I
just got some podcast numbers from one of the big
corporate muckety MUCKs. Podcast doing very well, very well. The
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company very happy making lots and lots of money off
the podcast. Myself and Danny, Eh, you know, not that much,
but we're hanging out. It's a labor of love. It's
a labor of love. So today is the last podcast
we are doing in the month of January twenty twenty five.
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We will not be doing another podcast in the month
of January. Is our final show in January of twenty
twenty five, and we celebrate National Fun at Work Day today. Yeah,
today being Friday, and what a wonderful holiday. You gotta
have fun. Well, most people would say, if you want
to boost team around, just let people off from work,
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and that would be a great way. A modern way
to make sure that people have a good day at
work is to not actually work. Now, I do have
a random fun factoid which is not the word of
the day. I'm gonna get to the word of the
day in a minute, but the random fun factoid is
that the word office. I got to go into the office.
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I have a studio in the Malor Mansion, which sometimes
I say is the studio. Sometimes I say it's the
remote radio station. But sometimes I'll say it's the office
because I got to do stuff in there that's like
adult stuff, you know, I got to go adulting. But
the word office goes all the way back to thirteen
ninety five. That is the first time the word office appeared.
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So think of all the different generations of our brothers
and sisters that have come before us that had to
deal with the word office. Now. Jeffrey Chaucer an English poet,
and he didn't even know it. The guy was an
author philosopher back in the thirteen hundreds. He first used
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the word office as a place to describe a place
where business transactions take place. And that was in the
Canterbury Tales in thirteen ninety five. But you got to
wait all the way up until the seventeen hundreds. The
first actual office building was built in the seventeen hundreds,
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the Old Admiralty, a three story building complex with offices
and board They had a boardroom, they had apartments and
all that for the lords of the Admiralty. I think
I'm mispronouncing that, but anyway, you get the point. You
get the point. So the couple of random fun facts,
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and there's some other thing. It's Nolan Ryan's birthday today,
Happy birthday, Nolan Ryan. The record that will last and last,
They'll have to be a unicorn that comes along to
pass Nolan Ryan by who is the greatest strike up
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got pitched twenty seven years, twenty seven years. Win the
Hall of Fame nineteen ninety nine. I believe he was
in the Hall of Fame. So he's been in the
Hall of Fame. But he's worked as an executive in
baseball and all that for years. I don't think he's
working anywhere now. Was he seventy seventy eight? I believe
something like that. I think he's seventy eight. But Nolan Ryan,
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Happy birthday him. And let's get to the meat of
the matter. On today's pod, We've got cow Abunga, dude
phone a friend, and also very good, very good. Plus
that we have time, we'll get to the idiom of
the week, the idiom of the week first, though, this
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being Friday morning, hopefully had a chance to hear the
overnight show, which we did many hours ago, and in
the overnight show we ended with some gusta No, we
had some solid moments. The fact that weed Man Hippie
is in a hospital in Miami because of some kind
of viral infection that he has because his mouth is
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all messed up and it spread to his eyes, so
he's all messed up, all jacked up, and he's still
called up from the hospital to take part in lame
jokes of the week while there were other people in
his hospital room. You know, you're weed man, hippie. You
don't get your own room at the hospital. I don't
get my own room at the hospital. I don't know
(05:40):
anybody get their own room. You gotta be like a
big time rock star to get your own room at
the hospital. So he's in the hospital room with someone
else from multiple people, and he's laughing at the jokes
while he's getting medicated and all. It was pretty amusing.
But the Cowabunga, dude, Hey, you heard it. You know
(06:01):
exactly what I'm talking about. So we had William from
central Florida, kind of in between Orlando and Tampa, and
he was matched up against Don in Bizmarck. So that
was the matchup in Sports Jeopardy, The Great Sports Jeopardy
and Florida versus Bismarck, North Dakota. That the match up
(06:26):
basic sports Trivia Sports Jeopardy. So simple and yet so hard,
so so hard. If you heard it again, you know
exactly what I am talking about. But maybe not, maybe not.
So the question that will be remembered. I will do
(06:51):
the Bennies in a couple of months, and we'll have
to make sure that this ends up somewhere in there.
I would be shocked if it doesn't. So this the
latest episode of sports talk radio Callers Say the Darnedest
Things during game shows. It was a six hundred dollars
question in Sports Jeopardy, and if you didn't hear it,
I'll give you the question. Tim Duncan though he had
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hit or thought rather thought he had hit a game
winning buzzer beater to win the game, but with zero
point four seconds put back on the clock, that allowed
future NBA head coach, This, this future NBA head coach
to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. So
(07:35):
that was the question, rather basic right, rather basic question.
And my man, Don Don I love you. Don't be upset.
Don You made my day. Your answer made my day.
So again I said, allowed this future NBA head coach
to hit the real game winner for the Lakers. And
(07:57):
my guy Don in beautiful Bismarck said Bart Scott. Bart
Scott was the correct answer. That's right, that's right. The
former Jets linebacker, who I guess does radio stuff or
something I don't know. Everyone's got a media job somewhere.
(08:20):
Bart Scott was the answer. I'll never forget when the
NFL player hit the zo point four second shot to
win an NBA game, it was It was amazing. So
I made my day and almost as much as hearing
weed Man from the hospital. And we had our friend
Dick from Dayton to call in and inform us that
(08:41):
one of his dear friends has been put in a
convalescent home. What a terrible way to go out right,
and some people are forced to do that. Sucks, But
that's the story. With the Dixter giving us the inside skinny.
Now we've got business to take care of. There are
no NFL games, no NFL games this weekend in terms
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of the Super Bowl obviously is not played until following Sunday,
February ninth. This is our last day of January. It
is an emotional roller coaster on Benny Versus the Penny.
Now I have been accused in the past of dabbling
in hyperbole, let me tell you something. This is the
favorite show that we've done. I love this show of
(09:27):
all the shows we've done this season. In season two
of Benny Versus the Penny, this is my favorite. It
is I love it and had a grand old time
happy days of heere. We had no games to break down,
no real football games because no real football games played,
so we were just hucking it up and having a
great time. And you can watch the product, the finished
(09:50):
product of Bennie Versus the Penny. It's already been broadcast
in some places. Maybe it's being broadcast right now where
you are, I know on our hub on inb EC
Sports Boston at six pm tonight, you can watch. Right
after Felger and Maz on NBC Sports Boston, you can
watch Bennie Versus the Penny, and then the Celtics are
(10:12):
playing a little bit after that, and then we're on
after the Celtic postgame show at midnight. We're scheduled to
be on and there'll be a bunch of other showings
on Saturday, and I think a few on Sunday in
the morning. Check out Benny Birthus Penny. And there is
a moment I tease this on the Overnight show last night,
but there is a moment in the show which is
(10:35):
dedicated to one of you guys, one of the callers
to the show, and it was one of the most
ridiculous things that's happened on the TV show, but it
was because of the radio show. And I don't want
to give any more away. I want you to watch
it or listen to it if you're blind and pretend
like you're watching and you'll hear all about that. It
(10:56):
was interesting, very velly thing, shall we say so. Then
after we got done doing the TV show, which we
gain no games to handicap, but we did a TV
show about handicapping games. So after that we started meandering
around the Universal Studios Hollywood back lot. Now we have
(11:18):
explored this year almost all of the back lot. We
thought we were doing a little opposition research, and we
realized that there were several iconic sets that we have
not found, even though we have gone back and forth.
(11:39):
What we thought was all of the back lot at
Universal Studios, Hollywood, but we could not find a couple
of iconic sets and it was driving us insane. And
we've only got a few weeks left in the TV show,
and so we wanted to see everything we could possibly see.
Check that box right. Who knows if we'll be back.
I hope we're back. I'm optimistic the show will be
(12:02):
picked up again. But even if the show is picked
up again, maybe we won't do the show from Universal Studios.
Maybe we'll do the show somewhere else. You never know.
So we we were wandering around, and of course I
don't like talking to anybody, you know, I'm an introvert.
I do talk radio, but when I'm not doing the show,
I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna keep to myself
and we'll find it and we'll just back we'll backtrack.
(12:24):
I'm telling Looney, we're walking around. It's quite cold, California cold,
and we're walking around. He's got a big jacking on.
I've got my uh my work cloath. So we're wandering
around and we can't find it, and we're really getting
kind of upset because we we figured it's got to
be here, somewhere we must be missing, right, We're looking
through the back of buildings that are fake buildings, and
(12:45):
we're like, all right, we're gonna find it. And we're
sniffing around like, you know, we're like a basset hound,
you know, a couple of basket hounds trying to find
it so we can in find it. And then finally
Tom Looney not not an introvert. An extrovert, Thom says,
I whatever, let me just ask this guy. So there
was a group of dudes that work on the crew.
They make the the sets or whatever, right they do
(13:07):
the They fu's around with the sets, and so they're
sitting in a golf cart. It's kind of killing time.
You could tell they're killing time. They don't have much
to do at that point, and so Looney goes over
and starts smoothing them and he's like, I'm trying to
find this in particular set. We don't know where is
it up? Is it up the hill? And one of
(13:28):
these guys we got very lucky talk about being a
lucky devil. So one of these guys is like, hey, yeah,
I know exactly where that is. You want to ride?
Do we want to ride? Right? Do we look? This
is called phone a friend you know on who wants
to be in there. Looney shows the phone of friend
option and the phone of friend option. We started chatting
this guy up and he was, you know, wanted to
(13:50):
watch the TV show. He didn't know about the TV show.
And he drove us up this massive hill. There were
all these Universal Studios tram cars that were all over
the place park because the amusement park wasn't open, And
so we go up this hill, megawright turn, and boom,
We're on one of the sets we were looking for.
(14:12):
And then we keep going and we go through this
parking lot where they have all these iconic cars. And
when I say iconic cars, I am talking some of
the most famous cars that you have ever seen in
movies and TV shows and they're all side by side.
It was visually overwhelming. It was like my childhood was
(14:33):
in front of me under and I was like, WHOA,
this is crazy. I was trying to process everything and
all that. We're going to try to get back there
and do some videos in the next couple of weeks,
so you guys can see what I'm talking about. It
was wild, right. We found the set that has all
the houses that have been used in many, many movies
(14:55):
over the years, and I don't want to give any
of that away because we might be doing a video
from there in the coming weeks. And so the whole
thing was just great. It was awesome. We didn't have
to walk this guy he gave us the VIP throw
and I've always wondered, I've said this, I think on
this podcast. I don't know the etiquette on the golf
(15:16):
carts in Hollywood. Everyone's got a golf cart. Me and Looney,
don't we walk like a couple of puttzes. We're wandering
around and we see golf carts everywhere, Like, well, can
anyone just go use a golf cart? Do you have
to have? Like is everyone have their own golf cart?
There's no way everyone could have their own golf cart
because there's not enough golf carts for the people. And
(15:37):
it seems like people are just coming and going. And
then there's like a number system and maybe there's a
colored system meaning that the certain colors are for certain
parts of Universal Studios and all that, and we don't know.
So we were like, well, stay away, We'll just stay away.
But we did get a ride. It was very cool.
So now we know everywhere we need to go. We
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know everything that we did not get to that we
can still get to. So consider it done. We'll get there.
In the company. Now, we did film a video today.
We went back to the New York Skyline downtown Manhattan
and they were filming. Oh you'll see, there were a
bunch of really cool cars there too. And they were
(16:19):
filming some I think it was a commercial, but it
might have been a might have been more than that.
We're not really even sure they were. They were hard
at work putting the the logos on the glass because
every time they filmed something new, the people that come
in that make the sets have to change everything out
and they're there when we're there. And did you see
(16:40):
any actual shooting of the show. But they were putting
all the sets together, which was a monumental, monumental amount
of work, and it was it was pretty cool. So
we were doing that, wandering around and whatnot. Now, I
wanted to mention this since Loraina started on the show
(17:03):
back in the day, Since Lorena started on the show,
she has become very popular with some of you boys.
All Right, she gets a lot more mail than me.
I have been usurped. I don't get as much. I
get a little I get a little bit. I get
my prison mail. A couple of you guys take care
of me, and I appreciate that. But Lorena, I don't
(17:24):
know what it is about her. Apparently she's got some
things I don't have, and she's the beneficiary of a
lot of food, a lot of candy, a lot of
stuffed animals and random things. And I don't even know.
I mean, there's boxes coming in and it's got my
name on it. It is Ben Malors show. But for Lorraine, now,
(17:48):
the cool thing is she often will get a lot
of food and she'll share with the class. So this
past week, a listener and I'm not sure who I
would give you credit if I I knew, she didn't.
I don't think she told me. Maybe she did not forgot.
So anyway, the listener said, this giant box of Valentine's
(18:09):
Day candy, chocolates and different snacks for Valentine's Day January,
still January this week. I know we're going to February
this weekend. So anyway, this's giant box. And they had
all kinds of stuff, and Lorena was showing me the
many delicious treats that she was given, and I was like,
(18:30):
that's kind of cool, that's neat. Why not? And one
of the items I had not had it was strawberry
frosted pretzels. That's the way I would discover me. You know,
I have chocolate pretzels, but I've never had strawberry pretzels.
I have had chocolate covered pretzels. Ya, you've never had any? Yeah, no,
I never had. You want some? You want some? So
she gave them a little doggie bag. It was actually
a ziplock bag. But she gave me a bag with some.
(18:51):
And I didn't eat it, of course, because I'm fasting,
so I waited until yesterday. Last night, I broke my
fast and and I down the the strawberry very good,
very good, strawberry frosted pretzels. Now it's a good item.
I don't know that I would go out of my
way to buy the item, like I thought it was
(19:12):
a solid item. I don't know that it was the
greatest thing that I've ever had, But I was breaking
a fast and all that. So stuff always takes it
tastes better when you're breaking a fast, and so I
enjoyed it. I thought I thought it was. It was
an enjoyable snack. So thank you to whoever sent the
strawberry color covered covered pretzels. It is appreciative. Let's get
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to some foody fun, foody fun. Let's do it. Every
single week we go bonkers, well almost every week. Last
week we didn't really go bonkers, but we'll have a bigger,
expanded dance remix of foody fun. These are actual food
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stories because we all got to eat. We all got
to eat. Will start out with Subway and they have
that foot long cookie which is pretty popular, so they say,
you know what, why don't we crank that up a
couple of notches and Subway is partnering with the people
at Oreo. That's right, introduce the all new Oreo foot
(20:26):
long Cookie. Now this is not everywhere, It's at participating locations.
They claim that this cookie will change your life in
amazing ways. It served warm and you're supposed to share
it unless you're a hawser. As my grandfather would say,
then you'll eat the whole thing. But the Oreo foot
Long Cookie features a rich chocolate cookie dough and Oreo
(20:48):
cookie pieces top with sweet vanilla cream and even more
Oreo cookie pieces on top. Now I'm looking at the
photo of it. It is not esthetically pleasing. It doesn't
look like an Oreo. It looks like a chocolate cookie
with white frosting on top and then oriole pieces on it.
(21:13):
So anyway, the suggested retail price five dollars, although if
you live in California you're paying more than five dollars
for that, according to the interweb, So good luck on that.
That sounds solid. I don't need to sew it a lot.
Usually when we travel, we're in a hurry, gotta get
(21:34):
some food so we'll get the subway going. And yeah,
I don't know that. I think I had one foot
long chocolate chip cookie that I split with some other
people and I thought it was pretty good. Popeyes, Popeye
the Chicken Man. Popeyes has launched a limited time ten
dollars deal. You get twelve wings or tenders for ten bucks. Boy, guy,
(21:57):
this inflation is no joke. For twelve wings or tenders.
Back in my day, you ten bucks, you would get
like fifty tenders or at least twenty five. Now you
get twelve, and you better be happy. And that limited
(22:17):
time and as always, as always, you know the drill.
Right then, let's just walk in. This is online exclusive.
You can't just show up and say here's my money. No, no, no,
They got to track you and then they'll give you
the deal. Otherwise, forget about it. El Poio Loco, the
Crazy Chicken. There's a Crazy Chicken location, El Poil Loco,
right across the street from the Fox Sports Radio World
(22:43):
headquarters and in that particular location, El Poiloko, we have
seen Magic conson, we have seen Oscar dev A Hoyle.
Over the years, a lot of the rich people that
live up in the hills in bel Air will come
down where the commoners are to get their chicken at
that old Poiloco. Poiloco launched a new mango ho a
(23:05):
narrow chicken nationwide nation wide. Oh yes, they tried this
last year. We talked about it on this podcast, and
it is nationwide. Eh eh, I mean I'm okay. I
don't really need that citrus marinated. Eh. I think it
(23:25):
sounds better than it is, Like how a narrow that's
a fun word to say. It's a fun word to say.
El Poiloco celebrating fifty years, their fiftieth anniversary. They're not everywhere, No, no, no,
they're not everywhere, but there are a lot of places
out west. I don't see a poll local back east.
(23:45):
I don't think they have many locations, if any back East. Well,
Valentine's Day is coming up, so fast food restaurants are
trying to cash in fast food pizza joint, pizza hut.
They have decided, you know what, the American people need,
we need to bring back are popular heart shaped pizza. Tadda, Yeah,
there's nothing that says romance to your significant other then
(24:09):
bringing them a piping hot pepperoni pizza that is shaped
like a heart. And you can do that. You can
change your life in amazing ways. What a romantic you
will be February eleventh through February seventeenth, and they say
it's perfect for the Valentine's Day occasion. The heart shaped
(24:30):
pizza will be available in restaurant or throughout their online
apps and all that crap. And the suggested starting retail
price prices may vary eleven ninety nine. Good luck finding
that for eleven ninety nine. Now I do not have
the Pizza Hut menu in front of me. I am curious.
(24:54):
Is that the same price as a regular shaped pizza?
Could they really be charged more because they're shaping the
dough like a heart? Is that really worth charging more money?
I mean, I probably is, I guess. I mean you
really want the pizza like that, but it's your heart
shaped pepperoni pizza. Wait to go? Now this one right
(25:17):
in my wheelhouse. Windy's people will break. Windy's have unveiled
a new thin Mint Frosty. Tada. Yes, Wendy's is partnering
up Yep, you guessed it, the Girl Scouts of America
and they are launching a new Thin Mint Frosty. This
starts later this month, February twenty first, so actually we're
(25:41):
still in January, so we have to wait, but February
twenty first, and they will combine the two classic fan
favorite treats, the Frosty and the thin Mint a medley
in your mouth. Wendy's also offering a one dollar Crispy
Chicken sandwich, but only this weekend through February third, with
(26:05):
any purchase in the app. So they're gonna get you
to buy something in the app and then they'll they'll
throw a bone in your way and get you that
one dollar Crispy Chicken sandwich. If you're a fan of Starbucks,
I better let my wife know. Starbucks planning to cut
thirty percent of its menu thirty percent of its menu
by the end of well not the end, but by
(26:28):
late twenty twenty five, and they think this is the
way to get customers back. Less is more, Less is more.
Starbucks sales went down four percent in the US and
worldwide in the latest quarter that didn't make Wall Street
very happy. That did not and Starbucks paying a ridonculous amount.
(26:52):
There's a record amount to their new CEO who they
lured away from Chipotle. Is there a free agency in
the ceo world or where there is in baseball? Yeah.
The guy that's in the Starbucks CEO who took over
just a few days ago, earned a five million dollar
(27:14):
bonus after one month on the job, and he's gonna
collect another five million in March. So it's good to
know that it is not only the world of professional
sports that is frivolous with money, but also big business
in America. Now we know this, but Mike, God, do
you really need that? I mean, I know Starbucks is massive,
(27:34):
I get that. But so his whole plan is to
go back to the basics. Ten million bucks. This guy's
gonna make between January and March a signing bonus of
ten million dollars ten million to decide that we're going
to get rid of a bunch of products, We're gonna
(27:57):
streamline everything, and yeah, okay, good luck, good luck on that.
I'm going to bring back the sharpies and God only
knows what but there's the news about Starbucks. What else
do we have? Well, this is actually kind of funny.
So Denny's is running a promotion for two dollars four
(28:21):
dollars six dollars eight dollars value menu items, and there
are multiple reports that have filtered into the foody world
that Denny's, well, they do have two dollars four dollars
six dollars eight dollars items. They have only one item
priced at that price point on their menu. So they're
(28:43):
promoting you, Oh, come on in, get a couple of
two dollar items, a couple of four dollars six dollars
eight doll No, no, they only have one each. And
it gets even better. But wait, there's more in California.
And I think this is also true in New York.
It's not even two four six eight. It's who do
we appreciate? Inflation? Inflation is who we appreciate, because it's
(29:07):
even higher than that, my gut. All right, we'll get out.
We have the Idiom of the week, the Ideum of
the week, the inneral all the Week card. Here's the
Adium of the week. More bang for your buck, more
bang for your buck. That is military slang. It goes back.
(29:29):
More bang for your buck to World War Two obviously
means getting solid value. You think Starbucks is getting solid
value for the ten million dollars signing bonus they gave
their new CEO, whose idea was to just get rid
of a bunch of menu items. Yeah, okay, anyway, bang
for your buck it means better return on investment. And
(29:52):
it was military slang. A lot of the phrases that
we have are from the military. This military slang during
World War Two and it was use to describe the
effectiveness of those bombs in relation to how much they cost.
The phrase bigger bang for the buck was used by
US President Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Charles
(30:16):
Irwin Wilson, in nineteen fifty four. He used it to
describe the new policy NUK policy rather and it was
about nuclear weapons. Rather than have a large army, they
would streamline the army kind of like Starbucks is doing
their menu, and they would keep the Soviet Union in
check because they would get more bang for their back,
(30:39):
a bigger bang for their back with nukes. I have
no idea whether or not they realized at that time
that those same nukes they had back in those days
are these same nukes that we have today because there's
no way to get rid of them. They're here forever,
and all it takes is one bad day and then
(31:00):
game over. We're all cooked. All right, we'll get out
on that. I know that's a weird, weird flex, but okay, anyway,
thank you. Danny G will join me on the Saturday
and Sunday podcast. Don't forget Benny Versus. The Penny is
back and better than ever. Check it out or week
(31:23):
before the Super Bowl show. Week before the Super Bowl Show,
you gotta watch it on NBC Sports Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
a bunch of other cable channelsill being on LA tomorrow
on the Lakers station. So if you're here in La
La Land, you can check that out and we will
catch you next time. Have a wonderful, onderful rest of
(31:50):
your day. Later, skater Austa Pasta Did I do that
right now? All right? Thank you? Got a murder.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!